I received some emails recently asking were will be my next presentations, and to make it public here we go: Insync’10, Melbourne August 16 – Topic: Tips and Best Practices for DBAs @ 9:55AM to 10:40 AM more info at http://www.insync-conference.com.au/ NZOUG OTN Days, August 18 in Auckland and August 20 in Wellington – Topic…
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OracleNZ, 2 years and 294,679 Unique Visitors Later
This week was my blog 2nd anniversary, it’s incredible how the time fly, after two years and 294,679 unique visitors, looks like was yesterday when I started this blog. Thank you for follow me and read my posts, you are the real reason that keep me working on this blog 🙂
Discovering the New Zealand Oracle Market
The New Zealand conference this year was a great event, with a little over 150 participants and with a fantastic group of speakers and topics (For more information please refer to http://www,nzoug.org ). From Left to Right: Guy Harrison, Chris Muir, Tim Hall, Robert Freeman, Daniel Morgan, and Francisco Munoz Alvarez. During the event, my…
Discover the Oracle Widgets for DBAs!
The EM (Enterprise Manager) Desktop Widgets are lightweight internet applications that provide persistent desktop access to key Enterprise Manager monitoring and diagnostic information. Oracle first released the EM Widgets at August 2009, now at December 2009; Oracle has already 3 different Widgets available, they are Target Search Monitoring – Provides access to Enterprise Manager Targets…
Goodbye Metalink (last month of life), Welcome My Oracle Support
For a long time Metalink was a good friend and partner, helping me to find some good solutions and supporting me to solve some daily or critical situations. Now is official in the metalink note 841061.1: “Beginning October 2, 2009 you will be automatically prompted to verify your SSO account or to create a new SSO…
SANGAM’09 a wonderful experience, Thank you India!
SANGAM’09 at Bangalore, India is already behind and I don’t have words to express how wonderful experience it was, I just can say I’ll never forget. India is a fantastic country and a beautiful place to visit. I want to say thank you to the AIOUG directors for the invitation to speak in their first…
Oracle New Sun OLTP Exadata
World’s First OLTP Database Machine with Sun FlashFire Technology ! This Tuesday,September 15th, Mr. Larry Ellison will unveil this innovative new product, the world’s first OLTP database machine with Sun FlashFire technology. Don’t miss the first Oracle-Sun product announcement webcast and click here to register. Cheers, Francisco Munoz Alvarez
Around the World!
My next presentations this year will be at: September 8-10, Bangalore India, SANGAM’09 October 13-17, Rovinj Croatia, HrOUG November 16, Santiago Chile, OTN DAY November 18, Lima Peru, PEOUG’09 November 19, Sao Paulo Brazil, GUOB’09 See you! Francisco Munoz Alvarez
Finally, Oracle 11gR2 is here!!
After months of tests, Oracle released today the newest release of 11g Database (11.2.0.1 – for Linux x86 and 64bit only), with more than 200 new features and a lot of excellent surprises. Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1 – Released at August 2007) and Release 2 (11.2 – Released today) are the versions with…
Nice way to start the week!
Well after I nice weekend, I started my week with a car accident when going to work 🙁 , here are some pictures when recovering my car from the trees. yes, the trees. To avoid crash with several other cars that stopped on front of me (due to a nice guy crossing the high way…